Criminal Justice
Vox’s coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.
The role of the special counsel is designed to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
The Supreme Court must resolve a terrifying legal fight over whether rifles with “bump stocks” are legal.
Crime was expected to be a defining issue of the midterms. Here’s what actually happened.
The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Crawford v. Cain is a monument to judicial lawlessness.
I’m safer now in New York than nearly any other year I’ve lived here. Why don’t people believe it?
Authorities are investigating the attack as a potential hate crime.
Q&A with Kurt Braddock about how rhetorical strategies can lead to violence.
The economist has conducted and popularized research that can help break our policy deadlocks on guns and crime.
Jones says his enemies want him off the air. US bankruptcy law is on his side, for now.
If not “defund the police,” what should Democrats’ messaging on public safety be?
Connecticut jurors order Alex Jones to pay $1 billion in second Sandy Hook trial — and more might be on the way.
The knotty but triumphant role true crime played in the case of Adnan Syed, subject of the 2014 podcast Serial.
Good luck figuring out what happened with crime in 2021.
Texas voters will get to render a verdict before the courts do.
True crime has made huge strides in centering the victim. But we keep getting series like the Netflix docudrama.
How the director of an astonishing new documentary used old government footage to shed light on the present.
Even Trump’s own appointees had no patience for the rogue judge who sabotaged the DOJ investigation into the former president.
Sealing felony records is integral to a bill sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
The Justice Department files an extraordinarily savvy response to the Trump judge’s “special master” order.
Trump Judge Aileen Cannon’s order is egregiously wrong and could be overturned on appeal. But it helps Trump run out the clock.
How Moms Demand Action has pushed the conversation on guns forward over the last decade.
The FBI’s unsealed warrant tells us why it searched Mar-a-Lago — but not much about what it found.
Did we learn nothing from James Comey?
Trump is possibly in legal jeopardy, but we don’t know yet what charges he could face, if any at all.
It’s been more than two years since police shot the 26-year-old in her home.
A new California gun law should force the Supreme Court to confront the enormity of its worst decision in decades.
These preventable failures cost Uvalde students and teachers their lives.
What happens if the Court rejects the rule of law?
Akron police officers released body camera footage of the killing that raises questions about excessive force.
More than 80 elected prosecutors have already committed to not enforcing abortion bans.
Though officers were inside Robb Elementary School just three minutes after the gunman entered, it took them 1 hour, 14 minutes, and 8 seconds to end the massacre.
The bill incentivizes red flag laws, narrows the “boyfriend loophole,” and more.
New York State Rifle v. Bruen is poorly reasoned. But its implications are potentially catastrophic.
On screen, an armed hero saves the day. But reality is different.
Blue states are bracing for gun control fallout from the Supreme Court.
After another school shooting, teachers express fear over the threat of violence in their classrooms.
The forthcoming bipartisan agreement could be the first new gun control laws enacted in decades.
Where things stand on Senate gun control talks so far.
Egbert v. Boule is a severe blow to the proposition that law enforcement must obey the Constitution.
Chesa Boudin is the latest target of backlash toward progressive prosecutors as anxieties about crime have increased.